If you are a freestyle rider who likes to ride in the park or on the streets, then you usually want a softer flexing board. that’s all well and good but which flex is better? This, of course, depends on a number of factors including style, ability and bodyweight.Įvery rating of flex all the way from 1 to 10 has it’s uses and is the “best” in any given situation.Ĭertain styles are more conducive to either a softer or stiffer flex. And I try to give both a word flex rating and a number rating so it is more clear as to the actual flex of the board. I have seen other scales that translate more like this:Įssentially they are saying the same thing but with different terms (and different number ranges) so it pays to double check the scale that the retailer or manufacturer is using before deciding.įor example one retailer may use the second scale above and rate the board as medium and in reality it has a flex of 3 out of 10 - that same board would be rated as medium-to-soft on the other rating - so make sure you know the scales being used.Īll the reviews and discussions surrounding flex on this website use the first scale above, unless otherwise mentioned. Usually flex is described in one of two ways (or both) - on a scale of 1 to 10 or on a scale of soft to stiff. This is partly because there isn't any efforts to create a generalized system and partly because it's difficult to do so, given differing torsional flex and different flex in different areas of the snowboard (tip, tail, between the bindings etc). There isn’t a generalized standard across snowboarding manufacturers so there will be some difference in what one manufacturer considers “medium” compared to another. There may be the argument that Torsional flex deserves more attention as a softer torsional flex will help with sharper turns and getting spins around a stiffer torsional flex will increase edge-hold (so it does have an effect).
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Whether or not it should be considered is a debate for another post (but feel free to leave a comment below if you have any thoughts on this). This is generally not considered by people when deciding on their snowboard purchase and typically there isn't a rating given out by manufacturers for this. Torsional flex is the flex width ways (from edge to edge). This all depends on what the snowboard is designed to do and I’ll get more into that in the “ what flex is best” section below. Consistent flex between the bindings and in the tip and tail.Stiffer flex in the tail, and softer flex in the nose (usually not the other way around though).Softer flex between the bindings with stiffer flex tip and tail.Stiffer flex between the bindings with softer flex tip and tail.
The following are common, but this isn't exhaustive: Progressive flex means that the flex in the center of the board, the nose and the tail could all have different levels of flex. Longitudinal flex can be progressive or continuous. The flex rating given by manufacturers refers to the longitudinal flex and so will be the focus of this post. This is what is typically referred to when talking about the flex of a board. Longitudinal flex is the flexibility of the snowboard length ways (from nose to tail).
There are broadly two different types of flex in a snowboard - longitudinal and torsional.
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